88 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Distribution. — England. — Regular autumn passage-migrant (Aug.- 

 Oct.) and probably a regular, but seldom observed, spring -migrant 

 along east coast. Rare straggler south coast ; elsewhere not 

 recorded. Scotland. — On mainland only once autumn (Elgin, 

 Sept. 15, 1890), and twice spring (off Aberdeen, May 16, 1872, 

 Carmyle, Clyde, May 14, 1910). In Fair Isle and Isle of May 

 regularly in recent years in autumn as well as spring 1909 in Fair 

 Isle. Three Unst '(Shetlands) Sept., 1902, one Monach Island 

 Light (O. Hebrides) Oct., 1890, and one Pentland Skerries (Orkneys) 

 May 12, 1890. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Norwegian high mountains. Passes in 

 numbers over Heligoland, through Holland, and apparently north- 

 west Germany, France, and Spain. Replaced by allied forms in 

 Lapland and Sweden, and north Asia. 



I<g2. A- L. S. sveclca. 'bTtt '£.,10-., f^'^^ 



183. Luscinia svecica cyanecula (Wolf) — THE WHITE- 

 SPOTTED BLUETHROAT. 



Sylvia cyaxecula Wolf, in Meyer & Wolf's Taschenb. d. deutsch. 

 Vogelk., I, p. 240 (1810— Germany). 



Cyanecula leucocyana Brehm, Yarrell, i, p. 323 (in text) ; Cyanecula 

 wolfi C. L. Brehm, Saunders, Brit. B., i, p. 7. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Seven males. Near Scarborough 

 (Yorks.), April 12, 1876 (J. G. Tuck, Zool, 1876, p. 4976, cf. Birds 

 Yorks., p. 38. and Brit. B., i, p. 228). Dungeness Light (Kent) 

 Oct. 6, 1902 (M. J. Nicoll, Bull B.O.C., xii, p. 14). Near Hastings 

 (Sussex) Sept. 1, 1905 (C. B. Ticehurst, op.c, xvi, p. 34). Fair Isle 

 (Shetlands) presumably spring 1909 and in 1910 (W. E. Clarke, 

 Aim. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1910, pp. 67, 196; cf. Brit. B., iii, p. 417, v, 

 p. 200). Two, Pett Level (Sussex), May 15 and 17, 1911 (^.c, v, 

 H. W. Ford-Lindsay, p. 23, J. B. Nichols, p. 106).* 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Middle Europe from France to west 

 Russia. Migrates through more western parts of Europe to north- 

 west Africa, also in lesser numbers to north-east Africa. Replaced 

 by closely-allied forms in south Russia generally, Persia, Kashmir 

 (Ladakh), the Karakoram, Pamir and Altai Mountains, and east 

 Turkestan. 



* A bird said to have been a Bluethroat was seen by Captain Hadfield at 

 Bonchiirch, Isle of Wight, from about Feb., 1865, to Sept., 1867, and is 

 said to have had a spotless blue throat in the month of November, 1865 ! In 

 Jan., 1866, another Bluetliroat was recorded from the same place by the 

 same observer. No Bluethroats have been observed elsewhere in Great 

 Britain in winter. 



